20 Nov 06
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterGood.
As I read much of Klein's analysis, I couldn't help but think of the rise of U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Here is a man being touted for the presidency and he's never even run a business, nor does he understand the most fundamental aspects of markets.
I know that you would not understand that this is a desirable thing.
After all you are a pathetic, fascistic, lie spreading fool. The only government you desire and understand is one that panders to big business and sells its citizens down the river. One that for instance is funded by the energy companies and destroys the world by refusing to sign Kyoto whilst covering up the fact that it got its sticky fingers burnt in the Enron scandal.
Ask yourself why, if we live in a "free market" as is claimed by right wingers like you, do we need government intervention in business at all?
Come back to me when you've figured out the lie of the "free market".
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by uzlessNo such animal has ever been found.
Here's an objective viewpoint from a Canadian newspaper obit.
Like Bigfoot and the Loch Nest Monster, an objective viewpoint in conjunction with a Canadian newspaper has never been verified .. doctored photos and "eyewitness" sightings abound.
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by howardgeeI thought communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production and as an economic system, socialism is often associated with state, community or worker ownership of the means of production. (Thanks Wiki)
In theory you can never find them together as they are mutually exclusive!
Moreover, Communism has never existed in practise any where in the world.
Is this not the same??
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by uzlessMost of the 'privitization' you hear about these days is as a result of his influence -- the recognition that government agencies trying to run businessess often screw them up.
Listen, Friedman is like Freud. Not many still subcribe to his theory in practice anymore. For all his ramblings about how governments should get smaller and Depression economics the guy was a hypocrite....
"unable to find work during the Depression, he regarded the job he secured with one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agencies "a lifesaver."
Here' ...[text shortened]... ?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1163717412124
More details for anyone who is interested from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_friedman
"Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist who made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics while advocating laissez-faire capitalism."
"In 1976, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics..."
"His television series Free to Choose aired on PBS in early 1980. The book was widely read, as were his columns for Newsweek magazine."
"In statistics, he devised the Friedman test."
His political philosophy stressing the advantages of the marketplace and the disadvantages of government intervention shaped the outlook of American conservatives and had a major impact on the economic policy of the Ronald Reagan administration in the U.S. and on many other countries after 1980."
Here is the whole quote you were referrring to:
"He was unable to find academic employment, and working for the New Deal was 'a lifesaver.' He approved of 'many early New Deal measures as appropriate responses to the critical situation', especially the job creating relief agencies WPA, CCC, and PWA. However, he generally disapproved of government programs, especially those that control prices, which he saw as an essential signaling mechanism that help resources go to where they are most valued."
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by spruce112358That probably was a bit hyperbolic on my part but I was making reference to those die hard conservatives who tend to dismiss any form of altruism in learning as being a waste of their money and could care less if their lack of stewardship in promoting a thriving academic scene results in them losing their cutting edge across a wide range of disciplines. When the rot finally sets in they then cost cut to the @&%thouse all the while blaming liberal/labour/social democrat policies when in fact it was their lack of funding research and inquiry that although it may seem as a waste of time and money actually is essential in building a critical mass of information until the next quantum leap/breakthrough is discovered.
Certainly it is not spreading 'hate and calumny'.
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by uzlessUnlike Freud, the ideas of Friedman are still potent and winning many converts. School vouchers are already in place in D.C., Cleveland and Milwaukee.
Listen, Friedman is like Freud. Not many still subcribe to his theory in practice anymore. For all his ramblings about how governments should get smaller and Depression economics the guy was a hypocrite....
"unable to find work during the Depression, he regarded the job he secured with one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agencies "a lifesaver."
Here' ...[text shortened]... ?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1163717412124
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=13881
21 Nov 06
Originally posted by howardgeePlease see my earlier post about the peanut gallery.
Good.
I know that you would not understand that this is a desirable thing.
After all you are a pathetic, fascistic, lie spreading fool. The only government you desire and understand is one that panders to big business and sells its citizens down the river. One that for instance is funded by the energy companies and destroys the world by refusing to sig ...[text shortened]... in business at all?
Come back to me when you've figured out the lie of the "free market".
